Combined hook and clasp for horse-collars



(No Model.)

L. T. ANDERSON.

' COMBINED HOOK AND CLASP FOR HORSE GOLLARS.

No. 364,464. Patent-edJun 7, 1887.

WITNESSES INVENTORI:

ATTORNEYS.

T aZZ whom it may concern.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS T. ANDERSON,

OF CARROLL, IOWA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed August 27, 1886.

Be itknown that I, LOUIS T. ANDERSON, of Carroll, in the county of Carroll and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Combined Hook and Clasp for Horse Collars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and practicable device for attaching sweat-pads to horse-co1lars; and the invention consists of a clasp constructed to be slipped upon the rim or front roll of a horse-collar and formed with a tongue or hook stamped from the material of the clasp, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional plan view of a horsecollar and sweatpad having my invention ap plied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the clasp removed from the collar.

A represents the collar; 13, the sweat-pad; and O-represeuts the clasp placed upon the rim A of the collar.

The clasp is made of metal and bent to form the partial circle I), to snugly engage with the rim of the collar, and is formed with a hook,

Patent No. 364,464, dated June 7,1887.

Serial No. 211,982. (No model.)

1), upon which a loop or ring, (I, secured to 0 the sweat-pad, is placed, so that the sweat-pad may be detached from the collar without removing the clasp.

In the form of clasp shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the hook is stamped out of the body of the plate that forms the body of the clasp, and the hook is curved and set slightly out from the circular portion of the clasp, to facilitate the attachment of the loop or ring (I to or its removal from the hook.

The clasp is applied to the collar by slipping it down over and upon the rim A from the top of the collar.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, the metal clasp herein shown and described, consisting of the open ring b, to fit upon the rim of the collar, and the hook I), cut from the material of the clasp, set slightly outward from the face surface of the clasp and slightly curved, substantially as shown and described.

LOUIS T. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

D. A. CUDWORTH, W. L. OuLEUTsoN. 

